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The midterm was out of 45

• Section 2
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• Oct 31st 3-4pm
• Nov 2nd 2-4
• Nov 7th 12-3
• Email for appt if you cannot make those times

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ADDITIONAL CONTROLS

• Controlling for Participant Expectations
• Demand characteristics
• Deception
• Filler items on a questionnaire
• Asses if present
• Observation/field research
• Placebo groups
• Placebo effect

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ADDITIONAL CONTROLS

• Controlling for Experimenter Expectations
• Experimenter bias
• Expectancy effects
• Research on expectancy effects
• Solutions to the expectancy problem
• Single-blind experiment
• Double-blind experiment

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ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

• Research Proposals
• Pilot Studies
• Manipulation Checks
• Debriefing

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ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING RESULTS

• Statistical Analysis of the Data
• Examine and Interpret the Pattern of Results
• Decide whether there really is a relationship
  between the independent and dependent variables

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COMMUNICATING RESEARCH TO OTHERS

• Professional Meetings
• Journal Articles
• Peer Review
• As many as 90 of papers submitted to the more
  prestigious journals are rejected